Crossword Puzzle Number 7435 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
7. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
11. Informal terms for a mother.
12. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. In bed.
15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
19. A decree that prohibits something.
23. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
27. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. A periodic paperback publication.
45. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
46. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

DOWN

1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. A primeval personification of air and breath.
4. An informal term for a father.
5. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
6. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
7. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
8. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Jordan's port.
21. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
32. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
33. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
36. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
37. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
38. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
40. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.

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